The Caenorhabditis elegans and Haemonchus contortus beta-tubulin genes cannot substitute for loss of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae beta-tubulin gene.

To better understand the mechanism of resistance caused by putative interactions between beta-tubulin and benzimidazole compounds, we sought to purify nematode-specific beta-tubulins using heterologous expression after replacement of the single Saccharomyces cerevisiae beta-tubulin gene. However, we found that haploid yeast cells containing nematode-specific beta-tubulin genes were not viable, suggesting that nematode beta-tubulin cannot substitute for the loss of the yeast beta-tubulin gene. Copyright: © 2021 by the authors.

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Sophia B Gibson, Clare S Harper, Laura L Lackner, Erik C Andersen. The Caenorhabditis elegans and Haemonchus contortus beta-tubulin genes cannot substitute for loss of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae beta-tubulin gene. microPublication biology. 2021 Jun 30;2021

PMID: 34222836

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